Notices by SolSoCoG (solsocog@ieji.de), page 10

*buys an external SanDisk SSD for offsite backups*
Newsfeed: oh btw the SanDisk SSD (you just bought) is randomly wiping data.

Gifted myself a Flipper Zero as a birthday present on the 8th, looks like I gonna excuse myself that the present didn't arrive in time 😂. 4th day of "package announced" as status.

@rita mhm nein noch nicht. Wobei ich auch nicht wirklich oft Untersuchungen habe, genauer gesagt zuletzt vor... 8 Jahren als ich mir die Kniescheibe halb rausgedrückt habe beim Pakete rumschieben🤔 .

Yeah I lost interest in trying to get mcaptcha running for now as the default user isn't being created :alukat3r:

@privateger @alcea oh mcaptcha, that looks interesting. Seems selfhosted, nice. Huh what's that? mcaptcha.de is suddenly taken🤪.

@BlippyTheWonderSlug nah it's fine, we have a thick skin here and value freedom of speech to the point of defending a mass reported unpopular but still valid opinion, that is until you attack someones rights, dignity or well being :tom_scott: (depending on severity it's a 3 strikes and you're out). We don't believe the fediverse has to be a flower meadow in terms of topics, but still a safe space for everyone.

@alcea @privateger people actually do need to verify the mail. One thing I could do is blocking gmail.com, that would lessen spam registration by 90%. But it's popular by legit users aswell. Looking for a way to get rid of the automation.

@BlippyTheWonderSlug @HistoPol the only things disappearing here are things that are against the 7 rules. Last deleted account was someone comparing the israel/palestine situation to being worse than what hitler did to the jews and writing underneath jews rememberance posts that they had it easier. I don't mind yall being very critical and have controverse takes but that kind of stuff gets you removed, especially when repeating these offenses, also illegal to *lessen* Hitlers cruelty in Germany.

The legit to spamvertise users ratio is insane, 1:15. I'd really like a kocaptcha or other selfhosted option for mastodon.

Going play Fort Solis now. It looks incredibly thick in atmosphere and UE5 is just gorgeous.

@martijn :catJAM: literally when someone with 1k followers post something postgres is like *hold my beer* and goes through the roof and I'm like wtf are you even doing?

Okay how is it possible to run mastodon on a raspberry pi if this instance here eats up a ryzen 7950x for breakfast?

@martijn I should eat more Brussels sprouts. Maybe it is because I'm missing a kitchen in total that I don't cook fresh ATM. New kitchen arrives on my birthday 🫠.

So we just encountered a bug at our Bannerlord mod called Sword & Musket that causes Intel CPUs to mess up unit skins. All well on AMD. Can someone explain this to me I'm having an existential crisis over this. Here is a crappy meme I made for the issue to cope with it.

@postfilm Sorry, I went ahead and blocked well known spammer instances in masses now: https://ieji.de/@SolSoCoG/111981200237921220

I've decided to use the spamwave blocklist from mastodon.de after manually reviewing the list (roughly ~100 instances) to reduce the spam our users get.

Not a fan of just blocking tons of instances or using blocklists but this isn't improving by itself.

Tried handpicking repeated spamming instances but it wasn't enough so I went this way now.

@duncan1n1 I believe mastodon might be working on something in that direction.

Quickly updated both servers software. We're back.

It is quite stupid that only hcaptcha is available as captcha service in mastodon. Like I'd give an american machine learning company input from users. Why not do a kocaptcha / response / image implementation in general?

@oheso hey sorry that you're impacted that heavily by spam. I've started silencing repeatedly offending instances.